Puma Class - Year 2

Mrs Milner 

PE Days

Our class PE days will be Thursday and Friday. Children will need to come wearing a suitable PE kit with any earrings removed. Thank you. 

About the Class

Puma Class is located near the KS2 playground just off the KS2 assembly hall. This year we have 30 children with us. Working in Puma's this year we have two teaching assistants. Mrs Spencer, who works with us every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and Mrs Burn, who works with us Monday all day, Tuesday morning, Thursday morning and Friday all day. Mrs Butler covers Mrs Milner's leadership and PPA time. 

Topic
We have lots of exciting activities planned for the last half of the summer term! Our new topic is history based and we will learn about the wonderful mining history that Bentley has to offer.  The children will visit Caphouse Colliery near Wakefield to get a sense of what a coal mine was like before learning about the rich mining past of Bentley. Our science work will continue to be on habitats and the children will make their own animal habitats before moving onto learning about food chains.  Our Design Technology work will focus on sewing this half term and the children will make their own hand puppet coal miner using running stitch.  In our English lessons we will be writing a recount of our trip to Caphouse Colliery and ending the year on traditional tales. 

As well as our topics we will be working on maths lessons daily along with phonics, spelling, RE, Computing, PE and music.  Where possible we will try and link our topic to all our sessions. All the children will have access to continuous provision to enhance their learning experience and build on from their learning journey in Year 1.

Our garden area outside our room has been fenced off and an artificial grass laid. This area can now be used by the children to enhance their learning environment. 

Homework
Maths tasks will be sent home weekly when appropriate. The maths links to the area of learning we have been focusing on that week, but if the children are unsure how to complete their homework please speak to us at  home time. We do encourage the children to be independent and hand their homework into the homework tray as they come into the classroom. Please help us by reminding them to do this as they come into school. All children will also have a logon for Timetables Rockstars, which they can access at home for extra maths activities. Each child has a username that is placed in their planner. There is also the White Rose Maths App which they can use for free too. We encourage all children to learn their 2, 5 and 10 times table off by heart.

The children will all continue to bring home a reading book and we ask that you sign their planners to let us know if they have finished the book or what page they have read up to. We are keen to develop fluency so we like to encourage children to re-read their books before changing them. We ask that children read at home at least three times a week. All children will be heard 3 times a week in school as part of our reading offer.  

Clubs

Extra curricular activities will be sent out to parents in due course. 

Snack Time

If your child has milk through the ‘Cool Milk’ scheme then they will have this at playtime. Children can bring a water bottle to school and we kindly ask that it only contains water. In KS1 we have fruit for the children daily but they may bring a fruit snack from home should they wish. 

Mrs Milner

Puma Class Teacher and KS1 Phase Leader.